How to Install SugarCRM Community Edition on an Ubuntu 14.04 VPS

SugarCRM Community Edition is an open source and web based customer relationship management (CRM) software. It provides many functions such as activity management, contacts, accounts, campaigns, web-to-lead forms, dashboards, email clients and marketing, project management, bug tracking, shared calendars etc. that allow maximum management for business and client relationships.
In this tutorial we will show you how to install SugarCRM Community Edition on an Ubuntu VPS in less than 5 minutes.

Download the latest version of SugarCRM Community Edition available at http://sourceforge.net/projects/sugarcrm/files/ to the ‘/opt’ directory on the server. Then, extract it and move the SugarCRM files and directories to the ‘/var/www/html/sugar’ directory. At the time of writing this tutorial, the latest stable version of SugarCRM Community Edition is 6.5.20.

The following files and directories inside the ‘/var/www/html/sugar/’ directory need to be writable from your web server:

'config.php'
'config_override.php'
'sugarcrm.log'
'cache' and all subdirectories and files
'custom' and all subdirectories and files
'data' and all subdirectories and files
'modules' and all subdirectories and files

Do not forget to change ‘sugar-password’ with a strong password for your ‘sugar’ MySQL user.

Open http://your-domain.com in your favorite web browser and follow the easy instructions.

In order to run Sugar Schedulers, add the following line to the crontab file:

* * * * * cd /var/www/html/sugar; php -f cron.php > /dev/null 2>&1

That is it. The SugarCRM installation is now complete. Of course you don’t have to do any of this if you use one of our Linux VPS Hosting services, in which case you can simply ask our expert Linux admins to install SugarCRM for you. They are available 24×7 and will take care of your request immediately.

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